Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses : with observations and inquiries thereupon

by: Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703, author

Publication date: 1665

Topics: Microscopy, Lenses, Natural History

Publisher: London : Printed by Jo. Marten, and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at their shop at the Bell in S. Paul's Church-yard

Collection: usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicalheritagelibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Language: English

[36], 246, [10] p., XXXVIII leaves of plates (some folded) : 31 cm

Title in red and black ink

Engraved title vignette; woodcut head-pieces and initials; catchwords

Copperplate engravings

With an initial imprimatur leaf by the Council of the Royal Society of London

Includes errata on the last page

Signatures: pi² A² a-g² B-C² D-Z⁴ Aa-Kk⁴ Ll-Mm²

NLM copy, armorial bookplate inside front cover of George Witt; ownership signature inside front cover of Jabez Hogg ("31. January 1864."); bookplate on front fly leaf of the Library of the Cleveland Medical Library Association

NLM copy, bound in full brown calf, with single gilt rule border on boards; gilt-tooled spine with red leather title label; rebacked

Exhibited: "Hooke's Books," HMD Reading Room, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., August 1 - November 1, 2007

Conserved 20181129

Condition reviewed 20181127

digitized. 2019

Addeddate: 2019-05-02 05:11:41

Associated-names: Allestry, James, -1670, printer, bookseller; Martyn, John, active 1649-1680, printer, bookseller; Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899, former owner; Witt, George, 1804-1869, former owner; Cleveland Health Sciences Library, former owner

Identifier: 2366075R.nlm.nih.gov

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t8gf8ds42

Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR)

Ppi: 400

References: English short title catalogue R18004; Keynes, G. Bibl. of Dr. Robert Hooke, 6; Krivatsy, P. NLM 17th cent., 5958; Wellcome cat. of printed books, III, p. 296; Wing H2620